Lancaster Arts Partnerships

As a relatively small arts team, our activity is enhanced and supported through a network of partners and supporting consortia. Our key partners are listed below together with some of the networks with whom we are currently working to maximise the reach and benefit of our activity locally and nationally:

LICA is Lancaster University's Arts & Design School providing high quality academic teaching and research in fine art, design, theatre and film on campus. Lancaster Arts work on a day to day basis with our colleagues at LICA providing a linked programme of public facing and sector informed arts activity.

As well as Lancaster Arts, LICA links to two other public-facing organisations. Imagination and HighWire are both research informed collectives showcasing Lancaster University's design and digitally-led thinking in the public realm.

North by NorthWest is a network of publicly funded visual arts organisations who have come together to support, promote and develop the contemporary visual arts in Lancashire and Cumbria. Established in 2009 North by NorthWest consists of twelve member organisations of different sizes, structures and offers. NxNW is a regional sub-division of the national Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN).